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provide ready-to-use resources and step-by-step guidance to help education professionals grow in their practice.
provide ready-to-use resources and step-by-step guidance to help education professionals grow in their practice.
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Studying CAN be taught. Learn how retrieval practice, interleaving, elaboration, and other research-based study strategies can help your students learn better.
If you’ve bought into the idea that knowledge matters — that people can't really think critically or read well or even learn things without knowing stuff — then you’re where I am. The whole skills vs. knowledge debate is a distraction built on a false premise. So now what? I’ve been wrestling with the Now what? for a lot of the summer. Knowledge-building has a chapter in …
Vocabulary instruction doesn't have to be a boring chore for you and your students. Here are 4 ways to create engaging vocabulary activities for your classroom.
A couple of weeks ago, I assisted in a Google Level 1 bootcamp in Los Angeles. At the end of the first day, the attendees were challenged to “breakout” of a Digital BreakoutEDU game cre…
It is early in the school year and I am talking to my class about sketchnotes when I see the light bulb go off over someone's head. You mean we don't have to copy everything out of the textbook?
We invite you to create a short video that defines or teaches any of the words in our Word of the Day collection.
In this guide, you will learn how to use generative sentences to give students opportunities to apply their knowledge of new words in writing.
High school physics teacher Shelia Darjean Banks has her students identify challenging vocabulary words when reading science texts. Shelia asks each student to select five challenging vocabulary words. Students will work together to share and define the words they identify.
High school teacher Nichole Niebur explains how she teaches vocabulary related to copyright and fair use. Nichole pre-teaches vocabulary before having students explore issues of copyright. Students receive the standard definitions of vocabulary words and then work to write their own definitions.
High School ELA teacher Sarah Brown Wessling uses paint chips to teach her students about related words. Sarah writes related words and synonyms on the different parts of the paint chips. Students read the paint chips and practice pronouncing the vocabulary words. Sarah creates a competition between two of her classes to see which class can use the vocabulary words the most.
Students in Joe Burkett's world studies class learn new vocabulary through a seven step method.
These vocabulary strategies help students build their comprehension and language skills by using key words from Perspectives texts in their own reading, writing, speaking and listening.